Call for Papers
49th Annual SVC Technical Conference
April 22–27, 2006
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Washington DC
April 23–27, 2006
49th Annual SVC Technical Conference Call for Papers
2006 Call for Papers & Exhibit Prospectus – 1.9 MB 
Abstract Submission Guidelines
SVC Student Sponsorship Program
Building a Stimulating 2006 TechCon: Invitation from the Program Chairs
The program for the 49th Annual Technical Conference of the SVC is shaping up. It will build on the success of previous years thanks to a stimulating equilibrium between plenary, tutorial, and invited lectures, oral and poster presentations, and numerous networking activities with the participation from industry, academia, government agencies and national laboratories. The backbone of the program is formed by the well-established technical sessions, which include Optical Coating, Large Area Coating, Plasma Processing, Process Control & Instrumentation, Vacuum Web Coating, Tribological & Decorative Coating, Emerging Technologies, and the recently created Smart Materials. Most recent developments will be presented in the very popular Heuréka! Post-Deadline session, while the latest technological advances are presented in the Innovators Showcase.
In order to underline present and near-future hot topics of particular interest to the broad SVC community, the 2006 program will feature two Joint Sessions: Flexible Electronics and the newly established session on Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Applications of Coatings. Special areas of interest will be particularly underlined by well-chosen tutorials, topical networking breakfasts and specialized workshops.
It has been an important priority of the SVC to encourage participation of students. As in previous years, students have an opportunity to apply for sponsorship or scholarship grants that cover fully or partially the travel expenses associated with their participation at the TechCon.
Please submit your abstracts as soon as possible and plan now to attend the 2006 SVC Technical Conference in Washington, DC. When submitting an abstract, authors are asked to clearly describe the novelty of their contribution. This is one of the premier conferences on vacuum coatings, and we intend to prepare, with your help and participation, a very successful program.
Program Chair:
Ludvik Martinu, École Polytechnique, Canada
E-mail: lmartinu@polymtl.ca
Assistant Program Chair:
Ric Shimshock, MLD Technologies LLC
E-mail: ricshimshock4mld@aol.com
Abstract Submission Guidelines
Use the simple On-line Abstract Registration Process to submit Abstracts to the SVC Technical Conference Sessions and Smart Materials Symposium Sessions.
Session Topics Will Include:
Joint Session on Biomedical and PharmaceuticalApplications of Vacuum Processes and Coatings
Joint Session on the Processes, Materials, and Coating Systems for Flexible Electronics
Plasma Processing
Vacuum Web Coating
Optical Coating
Tribological & Decorative Coating
Process Control & Instrumentation
Emerging Technologies
Large Area Coating
“Heuréka!” Post-Deadline Recent Developments Session
Poster Session
Innovators Showcase
Smart Materials Symposium
A Call for Papers from SVC TAC Chairs for the 2006 TechCon in Washington, DC
Joint Session on Biomedical and PharmaceuticalApplications of Vacuum Processes and Coatings
The use of vacuum-based approaches, vacuum-deposited coatings, and surface engineering methods are increasingly used in the area of biomedical and pharmaceutical applications. On one hand, advances in this field are stimulated by new requirements to develop highly performing processes, materials, and devices, possibly at low cost, that provide specific functions related to different aspects ranging from biocompatibility, cell recognition, and sterilization to macro- and micro-systems used as implants, diagnostics elements, and therapeutic components. On the other hand, the vacuum coating community has developed new systems for the selective control of surfaces and interfaces, as well as for coatings and thin film structures with optimized functional characteristics. This includes tribo-mechanical, optical, and electrical properties; corrosion and wear resistance in a biological environment; bio-micro-electro-mechanical systems (bio-MEMS); drug delivery platforms; films for storage and handling of drugs; medical and pharmaceutical products; and many other applications.
In recognition to these advances, and with the aim to stimulate further progress and exchange between the materials scientists, process designers, equipment manufacturers, and the users, SVC is pleased to announce a special Hot Topic Session specifically devoted to biomedical and pharmaceutical applications of vacuum processes and coatings. To underline the multidiscipline nature and importance of this subject, this session is co-organized by the TAC Chairs of the Tribological & Decorative Coating, Optical Coating, Plasma Processing, Process Control & Instrumentation, Smart Materials, and Emerging Technologies.
We are soliciting contributions to this session, including (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Surface treatment for enhanced biocompatibility
- Surface cleaning
- Sterilization
- Hard and protective coatings for medical implants and medical devices
- Tribological phenomena in a biological environment
- Corrosion resistance and accelerated screening tests
- Optical coatings for biomedical devices and instrumentation
- New processes for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications
- Surface and interface analysis of biomedical products
- Systems for drug delivery and sensing
- Porous and micro/nanostructured films
- Bio-MEMS
- Photocatalytic effects
- Patterning for biomedical devices
- Packaging of biomedical and pharmaceutical products
- Adhesion and interfacial phenomena
- New organic and inorganic thin film materials
- Compatibility with FDA standards
- Equipment scaleup and process economics
Session Organizers: Peter Martin, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory (peter.martin@pnl.gov) and LudvikMartinu, École Polytechnique (lmartinu@polymtl.ca) working in collaboration with the TAC Chairs of Tribological & Decorative Coating, Optical Coating, Plasma Processing, Process Control & Instrumentation, Smart Materials, and Emerging Technologies
Joint Session on the Processes, Materials, and Coating Systems for Flexible Electronics
Based on recent significant advances in the area of flexible electronics, this Joint Session represents a very attractive hot topic of the SVC Annual Technical Conference for the fifth consecutive year. With its main focus on the most important breakthroughs and trends in recent years in the areas of display technologies, energy control and energy conversion technologies (including organic photovoltaics, large area organic solar cells, glazings, and others), and security devices, this session should pique the interest of a large portion of the SVC community. In 2006, this session will include particularly new concepts of film materials and film fabrication techniques, as well as evaluations of the film system performance, process and materials control and metrology, and general questions related to the economics of the processes and applications. Based on the extreme interest shown in previous years, and the number of presentations received, and on the large attendance at this last year’s Joint Session, the SVC Optical Coating, Vacuum Web Coating, Large Area Coating, and Plasma Processing TACs are pleased to solicit presentations for a joint session focusing on (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Processes and film systems for flat panel displays, in particular LCDs, plasma, and OLEDs
- Coatings and films for flexible displays as a whole
- Coatings and films for advancements in flexible electronics
- Security (optically variable) devices, including laser cards
- Energy control coatings
- Photovoltaics
- Plasma-based technologies and processes for flexible electronics
- Metrology of materials and devices for flexible electronics
- Mechanical properties and long-term stability of the film systems
- New materials for flexible electronics devices
- Process control and monitoring and film metrology for flexible electronics
Submit a presentation to this session on the challenges in this fast-advancing field of research and application.
Session Organizers: Ric Shimshock, MLD Technologies LLC, Assistant Program Chair (ricshimshock4mld@aol.com) working in collaboration with the TAC Chairs of Vacuum Web Coating, Optical Coating, Large Area Coating and Plasma Processing.
Plasmas are indispensable to the materials processing community, enabling techniques ranging from sputter deposition of hard coatings to organic surface functionalization. In all applications, a fundamental understanding of the plasma properties is critical to a successful process, and with the rapidly evolving demand for high-performance materials, an even greater understanding of plasma sources, plasma properties, and the subsequent plasma-surface interactions is required.
In order to keep pace with recent developments in both fundamental and applied plasma science associated with the plasma processing industry, the SVC Plasma Processing TAC invites you to participate in the 2006 Technical Conference Plasma Processing sessions. We are pleased to solicit presentations from corporate, government, and academic laboratories with research in the following technical areas:
- Plasma diagnostics (Langmuir probes, mass spectrometry, residual gas analysis, laser spectroscopy, optical emission/absorption spectroscopy)
- Film growth characterization (infrared spectroscopy, electron spectroscopy)
- Plasma-based deposition and processing platforms (sputter deposition, ion plating, reactive ion etching, and plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition)
- Atmospheric plasma processing techniques (barrier discharges, flowing plasmas)
- Novel plasma sources
- New and innovative plasma processing (plasma polymerization, nanostructures, biomaterials)
- Modeling of the plasma and plasma/surface interface
- Energetic aspects of plasma-surface interactions
The strength in the Plasma Processing sessions has always been the diversity in content with a strong relationship between diagnostics and processing. We continue to encourage presentations of this nature. In addition, we are again hosting a special session on the technique known as high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS). The high ionization of the HIPIMS plasma provides opportunities to develop novel and improved materials with unique microstructure and macroscopic properties. The approach has found applications in hard coatings, substrate pretreatment, low friction, and optical layers. HIPIMS processing requires an understanding of the temporal evolution of the plasma and its interaction with the target and substrate surfaces. The HIPIMS session at the 2005 SVC Tech Con was well attended, and the Plasma Processing TAC again invites you to discuss and hear about this fast growing technique.
Because plasma processing has become an indispensable and fast-evolving enabling technology, it also helps to advance different fields of strong technological interest. Therefore, the Plasma Processing TAC also supports the co-organization of the Joint Session on the Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Applications for Vacuum Processes and Coatings, and the Joint Session on the Processes, Materials, and Coating Systems for Flexible Electronics.
Session Organizers: Scott Walton, US Naval Research Laboratory, (sgwalton@ccs.nrl.navy.mil), is the Plasma Processing TAC Chair. Arutiun Ehiasarian, Sheffield Hallam University (a.ehiasarian@shu.ac.uk), and Falk Milde, VON ARDENNE Analagentechnik GmbH (milde.falk@vonardenne.biz), are the Assistant TAC chairs.
The Vacuum Web Coating TAC is soliciting papers for the 2006 TechCon. In 2006 there will be a Joint Session on the Processes, Materials, and Coating Systems for Flexible Electronics. The Vacuum Web TAC is working to organize this session with the Optical Coating, Large Area Coating, and Plasma Processing TACs.
We encourage papers on manufacturing, product development, and the business aspects of web coating, such as aluminium metallizing which still is the largest volume application of vacuum web coating. Contributions are particularly solicited on the following topics:
- Barrier and active packaging
- Materials for web coating, including sources and source materials
- Energy control and generation including insulation, solar cells, batteries, heaters, fuel cells
- Substrates, handling and quality control, contamination, defects and cleaning
- Medical and biomedical sensors
- Security coatings and devices
- Optical and optoelectronics applications of films on webs
- TFT and organic displays
- Down-gauging and process related savings
- Process control and quality control
- Anti-reflective, transparent conductive, display films
- Equipment advances
- Recycling
- Web handling, including web quality and inspection, heat load dissipation, etc.
- Competing technologies to Vacuum web coating, including inkjet technology in flexible electronics, atmospheric plasma
- RFID
Session Organizers: Charles Bishop, C.A. Bishop Consulting Ltd. (CABishopConsulting@cabuk1.co.uk), and Greg Tullo, SE Associates, Inc. (gtullo@seassociatesinc.com ), are the Vacuum Web
Coating TAC Co-Chairs.
Novel applications in optics, optoelectronics, photonics, displays, optical data processing, biomedicine, sensors, telecommunication, energy control, automobile, aerospace, and architecture stimulate important developments in the physics and technology of optical coatings. In 2006, the SVC Optical Coating sessions will focus on the latest advances in the areas of new optical film systems and devices, new optical coating materials and film fabrication techniques, optical film metrology, process control and monitoring, and different advanced applications. We particularly encourage authors to submit papers on optical films that combine optical design with microstructural features tailored on the nanometer and micrometer scales that deal with film properties ranging from optical nonlinearity and engineered band gap to functional characteristics such as mechanical and chemical protection, electrical conductivity, gas and vapor permeability, and others. Evaluation of film stability and integrity in harsh physical and chemical environments, their compatibility with novel substrate materials (including organic polymers), business aspects, experimental designs, and industrial scaleup are important subjects as well. The topics of solicited papers include but are not limited to:
- New fabrication processes for optical coatings
- Process control and monitoring
- Films for biomedical, pharmaceutical, and biosensor applications
- Films for integrated optics and optical MEMS
- Coatings for displays (luminescent and emissive coatings, functional films)
- Optical filters for telecommunications and new related developments
- Optically selective coatings for energy control (glazings)
- Coatings for optical sensors
- Films for micro-optical devices
- Thin film optical systems for astronomy
- Coatings for short wavelengths (UV, VUV, DUV, EUV, X-rays, neutrons)
- Ophthalmic and light assembly applications
- Aerospace thin film devices
- Coatings for laser applications, including laser damage prevention
- Metrology of optical films (new instrumentation and approaches)
- Industrial scaleup, including process control and stability
- Film nucleation and growth mechanisms
- Graded (inhomogeneous) and micro- and nano-structured films
- Photonic band gap materials, photonic devices, and device integration
- Optical and protective coatings on plastics
- Advanced optical and microstructural characterization
- Photoactive coatings
- Photocatalytic and photorefractive coatings
- Novel porous films for enhancing the refractive index range
- Transparent conductive films for VIS, NIR, and low-temperature applications
- New applications of retrofitted deposition systems
- Mechanical properties of optical coatings and their control
The SVC Optical Coating TAC also is participating in the organization of the Joint Session on the Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Applications for Vacuum Processes and Coatings, and the Joint Session on the Processes, Materials, and Coating Systems for Flexible Electronics.
Session Organizers: Bryant Hichwa, Sonoma State University, (bryant.hichwa@sonoma.edu) and Ian Stevenson, Denton Vacuum, LLC (istevenson@dentonvacuum.com) are the Optical Coating TAC Co-Chairs. George Dobrowolski, National Research Council of Canada (retired) is the Optical Coating Assistant TAC Chair
Tribological & Decorative Coating
The Tribological & Decorative Coating sessions focus on the latest developments in the area of hard protective coatings with enhanced mechanical properties and tribological performance (such as high resistance to wear, abrasion, erosion, scratching), and of specifically tailored functional characteristics (color, corrosion resistance, electrical and magnetic properties, environmental compatibility, and others). The large variety of applications encompass cutting tools and manufacturing industry, automobile and aerospace, decorative coatings, and numerous machine components. This includes special applications, such as gun barrels, copy machines, and extrusion devices. In recent years, there has been significantly increasing interest in biomedical applications of tribological coatings such as in joint replacement implants, surgical tools, and numerous others. The importance of the latter topic for the SVC community is particularly emphasized by the participation of the Tribological & Decorative Coating TAC in organizing the Joint Session on Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Applications of Vacuum Processes and Coatings.
For the 2006 SVC Tribological & Decorative Coatings session, papers are solicited on new and novel fabrication techniques; new hard and tribological film materials such nanostructured, nanocomposite and graded coatings; the metrology of mechanical, tribological, and decorative properties as well as of corrosion and thermal stability; the relationships between the microstructure and the tribomechanical properties; and new applications. Papers dealing with industrial applications are especially solicited that discuss specific product-related wear and process-related problems for these products (for instance, the integration of cleaning). Talks about the relationship between cost and value are drawing a wide field of interest for the industry. The use of in-line systems integrated in the automotive manufacturing industry in comparison to high-volume batch systems is a topic of special interest.
In particular, Chinese system manufacturers are encouraged to present papers about the status of production systems using plasma technologies. Other specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- New PVD and CVD deposition techniques for tribological coatings
- Applications for new nanostructured and multicomponent materials and film systems, including nanocomposites, graded layers, and superlattices
- Growth mechanisms of hard tribological coatings
- New testing methods for hard tribological and decorative coatings and their limitations
- Hard coatings and plastic substrates
- Corrosion-resistant coatings
- Coating systems for aerospace, including erosion resistance and thermal barriers
- Coatings for cutting tools including high-speed and dry machining
- Coatings for plastic injection and molding
- Decorative coatings for appliances, consumer products, and manufacturing industries
- Coatings for joint replacement, medical implants, and medical tools
- Coatings for automobile components
- Special applications of tribological coatings (copy machines, guns, artillery, etc.)
Session Organizers: Roel Tietema, Hauzer Techno Coating BV, The Netherlands (rtietema@hauzer.nl), is the Tribological & Decorative Coating TAC Chair. Gary Doll, Timken Research ( gary.doll@timken.com), and Jolanta Klemberg-Sapieha, École Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada (jsapieha@polymtl.ca), are the Tribological and Decorative Coating Assistant TAC Chairs.
Process Control & Instrumentation
In the 2006 SVC Process Control & Instrumentation session, the focus is on the instrumentation and control techniques used in vacuum coating processes. Of particular importance are in situ real-time monitoring techniques and statistical approaches to experimental design and data analysis. Innovations and developments used to create new coatings or that improve quality, productivity or reduce cost, are of special interest. This session provides a forum for these issues, where you are invited to share your solutions with your colleagues who face the same problems. Experiences from the research lab and production floor are welcome.
We particularly solicit presentations on the following issues, but other related subjects are also encouraged:
- Multi-gas multi-zone reactive sputtering control techniques
- Power supply arc handling in DC- and RF-based plasma processes
- Computer modeling of sputter equipment to facilitate lower-cost tool and process development
- Diagnostics methods from coating of powder particles in a magnetron plasma
- Pole pieces insertions in targets for NiCr magnetron sputtering: influence on plasma and coating properties
- An optical sensor for real-time in situ endpoint monitoring during dry etching of III-V multistack layers
- Index of refraction measurements for control of thin film density
- Spectroscopic ellipsometry and plasma diagnostic techniques
- Statistical process control
- Comparisons of various pumps in coating applications
- Calibration and operator training in maintaining process quality
- Process regulation in dual magnetron sputtered optical coatings
- Gas control in reactive sputtering
- Atomic adsorption spectroscopy as a process monitor
- Multi-point crystal sensor monitoring
- Overview of sputtering techniques and power supplies
The Process Control & Instrumentation TAC also is participating in the organization of the Joint Session on Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Applications for Vacuum Processes and Coatings. Have you made any improvements in your products and/or processes recently? Share your work with your colleagues – present a paper at the 2006 TechCon in Washington, DC.
Session Organizers: J. Grant Armstrong, Carberry Technologies (JGrantA@carberrytech.com), and David Chamberlain, MKS Instruments, Inc. (dave_chamberlain@mksinst.com), are the Process Control & Instrumentation TAC Co-Chairs.
The 2006 SVC Emerging Technologies session will focus on the development of new technologies and trends in surface processing and coating.
Papers are solicited in (but not limited to) the following topics of interest:
- High-density plasma sources and processes
- Hybrid technologies
- Plasma sputtering
- Large area PECVD, microwave, and RF plasmas
- Cold atmospheric and subatmospheric plasma applications: surface treatment and PECVD
- Pulsed laser deposition (PLD)
- Fuel cells and related technologies
- Nanotechnology: processing at the nanoscale, nanoparticles and nanostructures, nanocomposites, nanopaints, selective nanostructure growth
- Structure, surface and interface engineering: multilayers, dispersed systems, superlattices
- Unconventional structures in hard and decorative coatings
- Photocatalytic coatings and devices
- Organic coatings
- Coatings for space applications, energy and data storage, and communications
- Coatings for thin film batteries and active RF identification
- Coatings for biomedical applications, biocompatible and antiallergic coatings
Papers from all other areas bringing modern approaches in coating and surface treatment are most welcome. In 2006, the Emerging Technologies TAC will participate in the organization of the Joint Session on Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Applications of Vacuum Processes and Coatings.
Session Organizers: Hana Baránková, Uppsala University, Sweden (Hana.Barankova@Angstrom.uu.se), and Ladislav Bárdos, Uppsala University, Sweden, (Ladislav.Bardos@Angstrom.uu.se), are the Emerging Technologies TAC Co-Chairs.
Large Area Coating will once again host two sessions of presentations relevant to coating large substrates, generally meaning substrates larger than will fit in a typical box coater. Presentations on innovative coatings, processes, materials, and equipment are invited. For the 2006 SVC TechCon, the Large Area TAC is soliciting in particular presentations addressing topics such as:
- Advances in high-rate coating processes, target materials, and equipment for sputtering and other large area vacuum coating processes
- Improvements in the uniformity, yield, and economics of large area coatings
- Ion beam processes for large area coatings
- New coatings and improvements to current functional coatings such as:
temperable and bendable coatings for architectural, automotive, and other applications - Self-clean and easy-clean coatings (including hydrophobic and hydrophilic)
- Thermal control for architectural, automotive, and other applications
- Anti-reflection, mirror, conductive, and barrier coatings
- Coatings for solar energy generation
- Coatings for display applications
- Where Large Area coating is headed
- What architects and end-users want in coatings
- Regulatory activity driving coatings development
- Preparation and characterization of glass surfaces for efficient large area coating
- Reverse engineering of coatings
- Online monitoring and defect analysis of large area coatings
- Coatings, processes, and equipment for non-glass substrates
The Large Area TAC also will co-host the Joint Session on the Processes, Materials, and Coating Systems for Flexible Electronics in cooperation with the Vacuum Web Coating, Optical Coating, and Plasma Processing TACs.
Session Organizers: Michael Andreasen, VACUUM COATING Technologies, (Michael.Andreasen@vact.com) is the Large Area Coating TAC Chair, and Johannes Strümpfel, VON ARDENNE Anlagentechnik GmbH (struempfel.johannes@vonardenne.biz), is the Assistant TAC Chair.
“Heuréka!” Post-Deadline Recent Developments Session
The “HEURÉKA!” session is a special session at the SVC TechCon that enables authors to present their newest results, developments, discoveries, and stimulating achievements even after the official conference abstract deadline. The “HEURÉKA!” session is a very well-attended evening session run independently of all other TechCon sessions, and over the years it has proved to be an extremely important and popular forum for presenting late-breaking results at the SVC TechCon. Because the session is focused to the “hot-off-the-press” achievements delayed due to patenting procedures, specific strategy, or business reasons etc., there are no invited papers. All presentations about new ideas, products, developments or future trends in coating technology, surface engineering, and thin films are welcomed equally. The diversity of the “HEURÉKA!” program is very important because the session is intended to disseminate new and inspiring ideas to the audience for coating technology and future businesses. Just like when Archimedes found his basic rule for floating objects in the water and said “HEURÉKA! I have found it!,” new findings and ideas in the coating technology is the basic mission of this session. Join us with your own “HEURÉKA!” but please, do not forget that even “HEURÉKA!” also has its deadline. To be included in the Final Program for the 49th TechCon, the abstract of the presentation should be submitted no later than March 1, 2006. The total number of contributions selected for this very prestigious session is limited.
Session Organizers: Hana Baránková, Uppsala University, Sweden (Hana.Barankova@Angstrom.uu.se) and Ladislav Bárdos, Uppsala University, Sweden, (Ladislav.Bardos@Angstrom.uu.se).
The SVC Program Committee welcomes poster presentations on subjects of technical interest to attendees at the SVC TechCon. SVC is building an increasingly strong Poster Session that is presented during a period when all conference registrants and exhibitors are available to view the posters and interact with the authors in the Exhibit Hall. As in the past, SVC is offering a $200 cash award for the Best Poster presentation.
An abstract must be submitted using the On-line Abstract Submission process at www.svc.org. A manuscript is required for review at the TechCon, for the entry to be eligible to receive the award. Presenters are expected to be available at their posters to answer questions in the Exhibit Hall on Monday, April 24 from 4:30 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. One side of an 8 ft. by 4 ft. poster board will be available to each presenter for display of text and art describing the work.
The SVC Innovators Showcase (previously called the Vendor Session) is an ideal venue to introduce new ideas, processes, products, and services to a focused and sophisticated worldwide audience. Established with an unabashedly commercial foundation, the Showcase allows the presenter to address an audience that is there to hear what you have to say. This approach is particularly effective when the presentation dovetails with your company’s participation in the SVC Exhibit.
Participation by presenters and attendees alike in the Showcase continues to grow. There is always keen competition for the presentation slots, and a last-minute submission may lead to disappointment.
Presentations can be made on any topic related to the vacuum coating industry and will be limited to 10 minutes (including questions). An abstract is required for acceptance into the Innovators Showcase. Payment of a registration fee to make a presentation in the Innovators Showcase is waived.
Frank Zimone, Denton Vacuum, LLC (fzimone@dentonvacuum.com), is the Innovators Showcase Chair.
SVC is offering the Smart Materials Symposium again in 2006. These sessions focus on new and emerging functional materials and coatings with unique intelligent properties as indicators, energy generators, protective coatings, warning of tampering, aging, and biological and chemical change. Papers are solicited on coatings and processes for glass, plastic, and fabric materials. Applications include dynamic fabric, glazing, packaging, indicating labels, imbedded systems, authentication and security, food safety packaging, energy generation, and self-cleaning surfaces.
Papers are invited but not limited to the following:
Glass, Polymers, and Glazings
- Electrochromic films and Smart windows
- Thermal switching
- Photo switching
- Self-cleaning coatings
- Switching particulate films
Indicators and Sensors
- Nanosensors
- Date-indicating films and coatings
- Smart labels
- History-indicating films
- Environmental sensors
Biological and Heath Applications
- Antiseptic surface treatments for paper and plastics
- Skin-based drug delivery systems
- Biological detection surfaces
- Food safety packaging
- Pharmaceutical container coatings
- Tamper-resistant indicators
Documentation and Anticounterfeiting
- Document control coatings and labels
- Identification coatings and touch pads
- Smart cards
- Product authentication
- RFID
- Imbedded systems
Military and Aerospace
- Adaptive materials
- Fast indicators for aggressive gases
- Stress- and temperature-indicating skins
Display and Lighting Technology
- Electronic ink
- Organic and polymer electronics
- OLEDs
- Flexible displays and lighting
Energy-Efficient Materials
- Solar cell and fuel cell materials
- Architectural materials
- Vehicle and aircraft coatings
Dynamic Fabrics
- Clothing
The organizers of the sessions on Smart Materials also are involved in the development of the new Joint Session on Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Applications for Vacuum Processes and Coatings.
Session Organizers: Carl M. Lampert, Star Science (cmlstar@sonic.net), Chair. Assistant Chairs: Ric Shimshock, MLD Technologies LLC (ricshimshock4mld@aol.com); Claes G. Granqvist, Uppsala University, Sweden (claes-goran.granqvist@angstrom.uu.se); Bernd Szyszka, Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films, Braunschweig, Germany (szyszka@ist.fhg.de); and Frederik Krebs, RISØ National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark (frederik.krebs@risoe.dk).